Tag Archives: ViPR

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

At EMC World 2015 this year EMC made a bunch of announcements, but one of the most discussed, and causing the most head-scratching, was the open sourcing of their ViPR storage controller as the new Project CoprHD. Why would EMC give away the core automation component to their much bandied about “Platform 3” strategy?

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Storage experts know that there are two ways to handle crushing data growth – the kind of growth that exceeds our traditional scale-up storage array capabilities (in one way or another). The bad way is to keep plopping down more copies of those arrays which tends to spiral OPEX out of control – there isn’t as much OPEX efficiency at scale as we might naively think.

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

EMC recently GA’d a first version of ViPR. Many storage folks are not still clear about what ViPR is all about. Is it just storage virtualization repackaged to augment EMC’s physical infrastructure solution features this time? Is it a shining new example of Software Defined Storage? Is it unified storage, management, and data services ala private cloud? What is going on here?

Today at #snyc18 learning about the latest in #serverless. Opportunity is huge (iRobot is 100% serverless and loving it @ben11kehoe ), but not a panacea, lots of work to do to build up full production applications yet according to Kelsey Hightower (google) @kelseyhightower .